Bots are currently scraping the internet for LLM training data at unprecedented rates[1][2][3], driving up costs and destabilizing public-facing websites. I want to talk about how this has been particularly difficult for wikis, and has gotten much worse in the last few months.
i am actively looking for a google alternative, they are horrible with their summaries and because it sounds confident, it throws you off and derails actually finding an answer. their search has been seo optimized clickbait for years but now with reddit becoming ai slop and another billionaire persona cleansing space its looking bleak